Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pleonastic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pleonastic \Ple`o*nas"tic\, Pleonastical \Ple`o*nas"tic*al\, a.
[Cf. F. pl['e]onastique.]
Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm;
redundant.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pleonastic
adj : repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact'
and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the
phrase `a beginner who has just started' is
tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return
to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant [syn: {redundant},
{tautologic}, {tautological}]
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